VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND

Virtus Small-Cap Core Fund

Investment Objective

The fund has an investment objective of long-term capital appreciation,

with dividend income a secondary consideration.

Fees and Expenses

The tables below illustrate the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in Virtus Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial advisor and under “Sales Charges” on page 81 of the fund’s prospectus and “Alternative Purchase Arrangements” on page 87 of the fund’s statement of additional information (“SAI”).

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees - VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND	Class A	Class C		Class I	Class R6
Maximum Sales Charge (load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	5.75%	none		none	none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (load) (as a percentage of the lesser of purchase price or redemption proceeds)	none	1.00%	[1]	none	none

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND	Class A	Class C	Class I	Class R6
Management Fees	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%
Distribution and Shareholder Servicing (12b-1) Fees	0.25%	1.00%	none	none
Other Expenses	0.37%	0.37%	0.37%	0.24%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	1.37%	2.12%	1.12%	0.99%

Example

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes an investment of  $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated. It shows your costs if you sold your shares at the end of the period or continued to hold them. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the fund's operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example - VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND - USD ($)	Share Status	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	Sold	706	984	1,282	2,127
Class C	Sold	315	664	1,139	2,452
Class I	Sold	114	356	617	1,363
Class R6	Sold	101	315	547	1,213

Expense Example, No Redemption - VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND - USD ($)	Share Status	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Class A	Held	706	984	1,282	2,127
Class C	Held	215	664	1,139	2,452
Class I	Held	114	356	617	1,363
Class R6	Held	101	315	547	1,213

Portfolio Turnover

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 33%of the average value of its portfolio.

Investments, Risks and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies

The fund pursues long-term capital appreciation in the small market capitalization sector while seeking to provide the risk characteristics of the less volatile large capitalization S&P 500® Index. The fund invests in a select group of small market capitalization companies believed to be undervalued relative to their future growth potential. The investment strategy emphasizes companies the subadviser believes to have a sustainable competitive advantage, strong management and low financial risk and to be able to grow over market cycles. Although the fund invests primarily in U.S. companies, it may invest in foreign securities and American Depositary Receipts.

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in common stocks of small market capitalization companies. As of the date of this Prospectus, the fund’s subadviser considers small market capitalization companies for this purpose to be those companies that, at the time of initial purchase, have market capitalizations generally within the range of companies included in the Russell 2000® Index on a rolling three-year basis. On this basis, as of June 27, 2016, the market capitalization range of companies included in the Russell 2000® Index over the past three years was $5.5 million to $11.3 billion. Generally, the fund invests in approximately 20 to 40 securities at any given time.

Principal Risks

The fund may not achieve its objective(s), and it is not intended to be a complete investment program. The value of the fund’s investments that supports your share value may decrease. If between the time you purchase shares and the time you sell shares the value of the fund’s investments decreases, you will lose money. Investment values can decrease for a number of reasons. Conditions affecting the overall economy, specific industries or companies in which the fund invests can be worse than expected, and investments may fail to perform as the subadviser expects. As a result, the value of your shares may decrease. Purchase and redemption activities by fund shareholders may impact the management of the fund and its ability to achieve its investment objective(s). The redemption by one or more large shareholders or groups of shareholders of their holdings in the fund could have an adverse impact on the remaining shareholders in the fund, including by accelerating the realization of capital gains and increasing the fund's transaction costs. The principal risks of investing in the fund are:

>

• Depositary Receipts Risk.  The risk that investments in foreign companies through depositary receipts will expose the fund to the same risks as direct investments in securities of foreign issuers.

>

• Equity Securities Risk.  The risk that events negatively affecting issuers, industries or financial markets in which the fund invests, will impact the value of the stocks held by the fund and thus, the value of the fund’s shares over short or extended periods. Investments in a particular style or in small or medium-sized companies may enhance that risk.

>

• Foreign Investing Risk.  The risk that the prices of foreign securities in the fund’s portfolio will be more volatile than those of domestic securities, or will be negatively affected by currency fluctuations, less regulated or liquid securities markets, or economic, political or other developments.

>

• Limited Number of Investments Risk.  The risk that the fund’s portfolio will be more susceptible to factors adversely affecting issuers of securities in the fund’s portfolio than would a fund holding a greater number of securities.

>

• Market Volatility Risk.  The risk that the value of the securities in which the fund invests may go up or down in response to the prospects of individual issuers and/or general economic conditions. Price changes may be temporary or may last for extended periods.

>

• Small Market Capitalization Companies Risk.  The risk that the fund’s investments in small market capitalization companies may be less liquid and more vulnerable to adverse business or economic developments, which may increase the volatility and risk of loss to the fund, as compared with investments in larger, more established companies.

Performance Information

The bar chart and table below provide some indication of the potential risks of investing in the fund. The fund’s past performance, before and after taxes, is not necessarily an indication of how the fund will perform in the future.

The bar chart shows changes in the fund's performance from year to year over a 10-year period. The table shows how the fund's average annual returns compare to those of a broad-based securities market index. Updated performance information is available at virtus.com or by calling 800-243-1574.

Calendar year total returns for Class A Shares (includes returns of a predecessor fund)

Returns do not reflect sales charges applicable to other classes and would be lower if they did.

Annual Return (%)

Best Quarter: Q2/2009: 19.87% Worst Quarter: Q4/2008: -17.66% Year to date(6/30/2016): 7.04%

Average Annual Total Returns (for the periods ended 12/31/15; includes returns of a predecessor fund)

Returns reflect deduction of maximum sales charges and full redemption at end of periods shown.

Average Annual Total Returns - VIRTUS SMALL-CAP CORE FUND

Average Annual Total Returns

1 Year

5 Years

10 Years

Since Inception

Inception Date

Class A

Return Before Taxes

(4.95%)

9.43%

6.66%

Class A | Return After Taxes on Distributions

Return After Taxes on Distributions

(8.83%)

7.99%

5.33%

Class A | Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares

0.47%

7.50%

5.39%

Class C

Return Before Taxes

0.07%

9.91%

6.49%

Class I

Return Before Taxes

1.07%

11.01%

7.57%

Class R6

Return Before Taxes

1.20%

2.88%

Nov. 12, 2014

Class R6 | Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

(2.40%)

Nov. 12, 2014

Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

Russell 2000® Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)

(4.41%)

9.19%

6.80%

The Russell 2000® Index is a market capitalization-weighted index of the smallest 2,000 companies in the Russell Universe, which comprises the 3,000 largest U.S. companies. The index is calculated on a total-return basis with dividends reinvested. The index is unmanaged and not available for direct investment.

After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. After-tax returns are shown only for Class A Shares; after-tax returns for other classes will vary. Actual after-tax returns depend on the investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns are not relevant to investors who hold fund shares in tax-deferred accounts or to shares held by non-taxable entities. In certain cases, the Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares for a period may be higher than other return figures for the same period. This will occur when a capital loss is realized upon the sale of fund shares and provides an assumed tax benefit that increases the return.

[1] The deferred sales charge is imposed on Class C Shares redeemed during the first year only.